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Congratulations!
Mondsee Poetry Prize to Mara-Daria Cojocaru
Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize 2021 to Gert Loschütz for Revisiting a Tragedy
Nature Writing Prize 2021 for Mara-Daria Cojocaru
Revisiting a Tragedy by Gert Loschütz longlisted for the German Book Prize 2021
Erich-Loest-Prize 2021 for Ulrike Almut Sandig
Roswitha-Prize 2020 for Ulrike Almut Sandig
Uwe Johnson Prize 2020 for Irina Liebmann
Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff Prize 2020 for Michael Roes
Friedrich Hebbel Prize 2020 for Berrit Glanz
Horst Bingel Prize for Literature 2018 to Ulrike Almut Sandig for her lyrical work
Rainer Malkowski Prize 2018 to Ror Wolf
NO ROOM LEFT by Margit Schreiner longlisted for the Austrian Book Prize 2018
AURORA by Sascha Reh shortlisted for the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize 2018
A FINE COUPLE by Gert Loschütz longlisted for the German Book Prize 2018 and shortlisted for the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize 2018
Kassel Literary Prize for Grotesque Humor to Eckhard Henscheid
Erich Loest Prize to Guntram Vesper
Anton Wildgans Prize to Margit Schreiner
Saxon Literature Prize to Franziska Gerstenberg for SO LONG AGO, HARDLY TRUE ANYMORE
Robert Gernhardt Prize and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Prize to Silke Scheuermann
Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2016 category fiction to Guntram Vesper for FROHBURG
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Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2016 category translation to Brigitte Döbert for her translation of Bora Ćosić’s DIE TUTOREN !
Heinrich Gleißner Prize to Margit Schreiner for her life’s work
Basel Poetry Prize to Ron Winkler
Johann Beer Prize to Margit Schreiner for DAS MENSCHLICHE GLEICHGEWICHT
Bertolt Brecht Prize to Silke Scheuermann
Ruhr Literature Prize to Sascha Reh
Munich Poetry Prize to Ron Winkler
Thaddäus Troll Prize to Carolin Callies for FÜNF SINNE UND NUR EIN BESTECKKASTEN
German Science Fiction Prize (best novel) to Markus Orths for ALPHA & OMEGA
Reinhard Priessnitz Prize to Anna-Elisabeth Mayer
Horst Bingel Award (endowed with 8.000 Euros) to Nadja Küchenmeister
Congratulations to Julia Trompeter who received the Advancement Award North Rhine-Westphalia 2014 (endowed with 7.500 Euros)!
Congratulations to Nadja Küchenmeister. She received the Bremen Literature Grant 2015 (endowed with 6.000 euros) for UNTER DEM WACHOLDER. Her third literary award this year!
Congratulations to two of our authors! Mirko Bonné receives the Rainer Malkowski Prize for his oeuvre (endowed with 30.000 Euros) and Nadja Küchenmeister receives the grant of the Rainer Malkowski Foundation
Lotto Brandenburg Literature Prize to Sascha Reh for GIBRALTAR
Hölty Poetry Prize (endowed with 20.000 Euros) to Silke Scheuermann for her lyrical oeuvre »exploring the foundations of human existance« (The Jury).
»Orphil« Award for Poetry 2014 to Karin Kiwus for DAS GESICHT DER WELT
Fallersleben Prize to Juli Zeh for her oeuvre »involved in the dispute about the individual versus the zeitgeist and the endangering of democracy, calling for guilt and responsibility, freedom and moral in times without orientation and values.« (The Jury)
Thomas Mann Prize to Juli Zeh for her »multi-faceted work of prose focusing on questions of individual freedom and responsibility, social values and orientation.« (The Jury)
GWK Literature Prize to Lars Reyer
Ulla Hahn Award 2012 to Nadja Küchenmeister
Stahl Literature Prize 2012 to Nadja Küchenmeister
Stuttgart Crime Award for Best Debut Crime Novel in the German language to Simon Urban for his debut novel PLAN D
Lower Rhine Literature Prize to Sascha Reh for his debut novel FALSCHER FRÜHLING
Wetzlar Fantasy Prize to Markus Orths for his latest novel DIE TARNKAPPE
Mondsee Poetry Prize to Nadia Küchenmeister for ALLE LICHTER
Hotlist Prize 2010 (Best Book of Independent Publishers) to Ulrike Almut Sandig for FLAMINGOS
LUCHS Award for Children’s and Youth Literature to Jana Scheerer for MEIN INNERER ELVIS
Sylt Island Chronicler Stipend to Gunther Geltinger
Silberschwein Award of the lit.Cologne to Ulrike Almut Sandig
Marie-Luise Kaschnitz Prize to Mirko Bonné
Christian Wagner Prize to Helga M. Novak for her lifetime achievement in poetry
Würdigungspreis (Austrian State Prize) for Literature to Margit Schreiner
Hölty Poetry Prize to Paulus Böhmer
Robert Walser Prize to Patrick Hofmann for his debut DIE LETZTE SAU
Lower Rhine Literature Prize to Markus Orths
Solothurn Literature Prize to Juli Zeh in recognition of her »many-voiced and concise contemporary work«
Gerty Spies Prize to Juli Zeh for her novel CORPUS DELICTI
Droste Prize for Emerging Talent to Silke Scheuermann
Carl Amery Prize to Juli Zeh in recognition of her contribution to a critical contemporary literature
Rhenish Literature Prize to Burkhard Spinnen for his short fiction DER RESERVETORWART
Georg Konell Prize to Silke Scheuermann for her poetry volume ÜBER NACHT IST ES WINTER
Shortlisted for the ’aspekte Award’ for Best Debut 2008: MENSCH ENGEL by Gunther Geltinger
Ernst Meister Lyric Prize for Emerging Talent to Mirko Bonné for DIE REPUBLIK DER SILBERFISCHE
Telekom Austria Award to Markus Orths for his forthcoming novel DAS ZIMMERMÄDCHEN (The Chambermaid), runner-up in the 2008 competition for the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Award at the German Literature Days in Klagenfurt, Austria
Prix Cévennes for best European novel 2008 to Juli Zeh for the French edition of SPIELTRIEB (La Fille sans Qualités, published by Actes Sud)
Prix Relay du Roman d’Evasion 2008 to Mirko Bonné for the French edition of DER EISKALTE HIMMEL (Un Ciel de Glace, published by Editions Rivages)
The stage production of SCHILF by Juli Zeh is winner of the Audience Award at the »Radikal Jung« Festival, one of the most important platforms of contemporary German theater
Jürgen Bansemer & Ute Nyssen Prize for stage writing to Juli Zeh for her play CORPUS DELICTI commissioned for the Ruhr-Triennale 2007
Friedrich Hölderlin Prize to Ror Wolf in recognition of his contribution to German language and literature
The radio version of RAOUL TRANCHIRERS BEMRKUNGEN ÜBER DIE STILLE by Ror Wolf has been announced Best Radio Play 2007 (produced by SWR)
The Spanish edition of Mareike Krügel’s novel DIE TOCHTER MEINES VATERS, published by Lengua de Trapo in Madrid, is nominated for the Premio Cálamo 2007
Hermann Hesse Prize for Emerging Talent to Franziska Gerstenberg
Grimmelshausen Prize for Emerging Talent to Silke Scheuermann for DIE STUNDE ZWISCHEN HUND UND WOLF
German Audio Book Prize to Burkhard Spinnen for BELGISCHE RIESEN
Sir Walter Scott Prize (Golden Laurels) to Markus Orths for CATALINA for Best Historical Novel 2006
Per Olov Enquist Prize to Juli Zeh
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize to Inka Parei for the opening scene of her new novel WAS DUNKELHEIT WAR
Hermann Hesse Prize for Emerging Talent to Silke Scheuermann
Hebbel Prize to Mareike Krügel